Relational Tables and structured document

[Deke Smith]

G. David Kuhlman, dkuhlman at netcom.com said on 3/23/98 8:45 PM:

>But, if you have a large XML file, how do you update fields within
>that file without copying or re-writting the whole file?  That
>sounds very awkward.

You're right, you would have to parse the file to some sort of tree 
structure and edit the nodes of the tree. Then it can be parsed back to 
XML.


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